Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 1)

[5thwheel]

A couple of SoM early brand new Albion’s,note even though brand new neither has a near side windscreen wiper.

[pete_smith]

One for you Oily!

[pv83]

Some old bangers waiting for someone to rescue them…

[buzzer]

One for today, Buzzer.

[oiltreader]

Cheers Pete Hillman Minx and Husky, pressed and painted at Pressed Steel Cowley and on their way to Ryton, my next door neighbour(1960s) worked on them and his job was sanding/buffing lead filled panel joints. They were masked up but still not the healthiest of jobs.
Oily

[oiltreader]

Thanks to coomsey, Ray Smyth, pyewacket947v, Frankydobo, tonyj105, DEANB, Buzzer, 5thwheel, Pete Smith and pv83 for the pics and all the others for the craic .
Oily
Bit of the white stuff last week on dashcam, not too bad for Feb, a lot more further south.

[pyewacket947v]

6 May 1985
The Bungalow, Bourton Rd. Much Wenlock, Shrops, Eng,
AW 4996. a 5 ton,4nhp, tractor by Ruston and Hornsby
Built in 1919 and latterly named ‘Princess Anne’

[oiltreader]

Thanks to pyewacket947v for the traction engine, couple of threshing mills in the background and a Commer Space Van skeleton. I am just old enough to have seen threshing being done by these machines.
Oily

[oiltreader]

Brill pic shared on flickr, 1970s milk collection, thanks to pszz.
Oily

[toshboy]

oiltreader:
Thanks to pyewacket947v for the traction engine, couple of threshing mills in the background and a Commer Space Van skeleton. I am just old enough to have seen threshing being done by these machines.
Oily

Hi guys, another thanks for those threshing machines ,as a kid when in winter and those machines would turn up to thresh the local farmers corn ,and driven by a long belt from a tractor,facinating to watch the corn pouring out into 2 cwt sacks etc , the best bit for us kids was when getting lower down the ricks and surrounding the area with chicken wire, letting the terriers in to sort the rats out. oh dear it was SO dangerous for us youngsters but great fun . --toshboy

[backsplice]

oiltreader:
Thanks to pyewacket947v for the traction engine, couple of threshing mills in the background and a Commer Space Van skeleton. I am just old enough to have seen threshing being done by these machines.
Oily

I,ve worked at that Oily …,hard graft forking up to the “lousers” on the top …lot better that ■■■■■■■ catch weight bags ■■?

[windrush]

A now deceased friend of mine, later a driver with Pheasey’s of Ashford near Bakewell and other firms, used to drag a thrashing set around the Peak District in the fifties, first with a Field Marshall tractor and later a petrol/tvo Nuffield which his son still has. To get up the steep pinch from Ashford in the Water to Monsal Head (known locally as ‘The Scratter’) he used to hang a claw hammer on the governor bar and all the following traffic vanished in a cloud of smoke! He told me about a farm in Castleton where the cattle were one side of the street and the milking parlour the other side so the farmer used to herd the cattle through the hallways of two houses to get them across! He often wondered if the folk who now reside in the two houses in the village realised that cows used to come through their homes four times daily!

Pete.

[5thwheel]

windrush:
A now deceased friend of mine, later a driver with Pheasey’s of Ashford near Bakewell and other firms, used to drag a thrashing set around the Peak District in the fifties, first with a Field Marshall tractor and later a petrol/tvo Nuffield which his son still has. To get up the steep pinch from Ashford in the Water to Monsal Head (known locally as ‘The Scratter’) he used to hang a claw hammer on the governor bar and all the following traffic vanished in a cloud of smoke! He told me about a farm in Castleton where the cattle were one side of the street and the milking parlour the other side so the farmer used to herd the cattle through the hallways of two houses to get them across! He often wondered if the folk who now reside in the two houses in the village realised that cows used to come through their homes four times daily!

Pete.

What a fab story Pete,those were the days,nobody gave a toss!

David

[albion1938]

Every year in my village the local tractor enthusiasts have a vintage farming weekend in aid of the church, ploughing match etc. One year they asked to borrow my Albion for a threshing display. Clayton box newly dragged out of a barn, belt driven from a Field Marshall, bales on the trailer behind the David Brown, full sacks on my lorry. Looked well, shame about the elf-n- safety tape.
Bernard

[pyewacket947v]

Cleaned up a touch, safety tape gone,hope you dont mind.

[albion1938]

Fine with me, always meant to do something with it, never got round to it.
Bernard

[deanb]

5thwheel:
A couple of SoM early brand new Albion’s,note even though brand new neither has a near side windscreen wiper.

Thats a cracking pic David. I wonder what year it became legal to have a window wiper on the passenger side as well ?

[chris_webb]

DEANB:

5thwheel:
A couple of SoM early brand new Albion’s,note even though brand new neither has a near side windscreen wiper.

Thats a cracking pic David. I wonder what year it became legal to have a window wiper on the passenger side as well ?

I was driving an AEC MK3 MM in 1970 without a n/s wiper and some of our MK5s were the same.Anyroad me eyes weren’t far enough apart to see through both. That’s why I could never have been an engine driver.

[oiltreader]

Thanks to albion1938 and pyewacket947v for the pics
Oily

Unloading nr Great Gidding, photo thanks to Michael Trolove.

[5thwheel]

DEANB:

5thwheel:
A couple of SoM early brand new Albion’s,note even though brand new neither has a near side windscreen wiper.

Thats a cracking pic David. I wonder what year it became legal to have a window wiper on the passenger side as well ?

That’s an interesting question Dean,will see if I can find an answer.

David